[CentOS] Emulate RHEV On CentOS - A note on Xen v. KVM

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:17 AM, William Hooper <whooperhsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> Perhaps a silly question, but why maintain patches ? Why not compile a
>>> new version and discard all the patches ? Patches are a messy manner to
>>> maintain programmes.
>>
>> For the same reason that Red Hat uses patches to back port security
>> updates and functionality into the kernel, httpd, and most of the
>> other packages in RHEL.
>
> I thought that was no longer true for the 6.x kernel.

The difference is that the kernel tarball provided in the SRPM is a
Red Hat kernel, not a vanilla kernel.  Just because the patches are
not in the SRPM doesn't mean they don't exist.

-- 
William Hooper